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Computer based Access Control

R Sandhu and P. Samarati, "Access Control: Principles and Practice", IEEE Communications Magazine, 32:40–48, September 1994
http://www.list.gmu.edu/journals/commun/i94ac(org).pdf
 

Security Models

Introduction to Computer Security , By Matt Bishop

You can access an online version of this book via Safari from internal networks only.
Just go the Safari main site and search for the book title.
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/

Bell LaPadula
Chapter 5. Confidentiality Policies

Biba, Clark Wilson
Chapter 7, Integrity Policies
 

Attacks

Buffer Overflow Attack
"Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit"
http://www.insecure.org/stf/smashstack.txt
 

Security Assurance/Evaluation

Orange Book Summary
http://www.dynamoo.com/orange/summary.htm

The Common Criteria (brief summary by Nancy R. Mead, Carnegie Mellon University on US DHS site)
https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov/bsi/articles/best-practices/requirements/239-BSI.html

Common Criteria Portal, in particular Part 1 Chapters 6 and 7 (and Figures 2 and 3)
http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/thecc.html
 

 

Week 5:

Biometrics

A. K. Jain et al., "Biometrics: A Grand Challenge", Proc. of  ICPR (2004)
http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~ross/ pubs/RossGrandChallenge_ICPR04.pdf

 

Probability Theory Basics

P. Sebastiani, "A Tutorial on Probability Theory",
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2144192/A-Tutorial-on-Probability-Theory
 

Week 4:

Authentication

Leslie Lamport, “Password Authentication with Insecure Communication”, Communications of the ACM, November 1981
http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/password.pdf

The S/KEY One-Time Password System, RFC1760
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1760.txt

Richard E. Smith, "The Strong Password Dilemma",
http://www.smat.us/sanity/pwdilemma.html

HTTP Authentication, RFC2617
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt
 

Week 3:

Introduction to Web Services

http://www.developer.com/services/article.php/1485821
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/gardner/
 

Week 2:

Security Architecture and Design

SABSA White Paper
http://www.cioindex.com/nm/articlefiles/60152-SABSA_White_Paper.pdf
 

Week 1:

Risk Management

Australian Risk Management Standard AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 Risk management - Principles and guidelines

The document can be accessed in pdf format via the UQ library. (Standards online premium)
UQ has 3 licenses so only 3 people at the time can access the standards online web site.
You might need to try a few times. You will only have access from within the UQ network.

Go to the following site and search for 31000 and you should find the document.
www.saiglobal.com/online/autologin.asp
 

 

Evaluation of Information Sources, Critical Thinking
(Helpful for Assignments)

http://www.bothell.washington.edu/library/guides/eval.html
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html